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Lemming Review

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4.5

Dave White Profile

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    65

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times Dana Stevens

    The second half of the movie squanders suspense and momentum, solving its riddles by deflating them.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    Lemming does possess a mordant humor as it watches characters spin out of control. But the payoff is slight.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    The acting is serviceable and primarily of the stare-until-you're-uncomfortable variety, although Rampling is much more than that: She's a classic screen temptress with the aura of a melancholy spider.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Village Voice Michael Atkinson

    Exhilaratingly anxious, Dominik Moll's new film Lemming charts familiar territory but does it with gravity and panache.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Variety Lisa Nesselson

    Spooky, intellectually titillating and darkly funny picture is definitely the kind of film where the less you know going in, the better.

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  • 83

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The movie, which has the slightly glum perversity of early Chabrol, is a dream of betrayal, with the squirmiest attack-of-nature tableau since Willard.

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